March 16, 2016

Rokujouma no Shinryakusha

I haven't watched this in a long, long time so I took a look and there was a full BD rip available. torrent torrent torrent and now I'm watching it.

As harem comedies go, this is far from the worst out there. Most shows like this will drag out the introductions, with each haremette getting an intro episode. One nice thing about this show is that they didn't do that. Seven girls, and they introduced all of them in the first episode.

Anyway, Our Hero is Kotarou. It's implied that his mother is dead. His father has moved overseas for work, and Kotarou has been accepted as a student in the high school which inevitably is featured in (nearly) every romcom. He has found an apartment for the astoundingly low rent of just 5000 yen per month (about $45) and considers himself extremely fortunate.

But the reason that apartment is so cheap is that it has a reputation for being haunted. And it is in fact a top drawer weirdness magnet. Ep 4 was a beach episode, so forthwith the cheesecake!

The apartment is haunted. The ghost's name is Sanae:

The next haremette is Theia.

She's princess of some sort of stellar empire, and in order to prove her worthiness to succeed her mother, the currrent Empress, she has to get the occupant(s) of that room to swear fealty to her. She is extremely sensitive about her flat chest.

Ruth is her aide/servant. She also serves as a bit of a governor, to prevent Theia from blowing up the Earth with weapons on her spaceship, and in general to rein her in when Theia gets furious.

Kiriha is from an underground empire. Her people once had a shrine on that spot, and her job is to gain control so she can rebuild the shrine -- which will then provide plentiful mana for reconquest of the surface. Or something like that. And yes, her boobs are by far the largest in the show. And she knows it and is proud of the fact.

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I felt the same about Yurika, but for the life of me I could not understand why she didn't just perform magic to show them. That was truly amazing magic she performed for Harumi. Also those ghost catchers as well.

March 10, 2016

Cheesecake -- That Pool

Today's guest star is known in Japan as ano puuru ("That pool") or rei no puuru ("The usual pool").

Here's a NSFW post which describes it as "The Most Infamous Swimming Pool in Japanese Pornography". It's been recreated several times in Minecraft, and it's out there as a mesh for standard 3D renderers.

(By the way, if anyone can tell me where those girl models came from, I'd be very grateful. I'm looking through the DAZ3D marketplace right now but it's just too big; I don't want to wade through 150 pages of thumbnails. Based on the NSFW web page where I found that image, the artist used Poser to set up the models, and then exported them into a program called Vue to create the background and render the image.)

(UPDATE: They are variations of a figure called "NearMe Custom".)

I remember seeing a mesh of The Pool offered on DLSite for maybe $5, but last night I tried to find it again and couldn't. Maybe it's been deleted?

Anyway, given this degree of fame, and its association with softcore (and hardcore) porn, it's hardly a surprise it's also heavily featured in fan art. Let's take a look.

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Honestly, the only thing I like about Japanese porn is the promotional photo shoots featuring the actresses. Which was sufficient for me to recognize "the pool" when you posted this, but I hadn't seen it often enough to know it was an industry cliché.

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I don't recall the pool, although obviously all those artists above had an idea. I mostly feed off Graphis, which uses random pools in hotels and resorts. BTW, Minami and Isuzu sneaked in twice each (not that I'm complaining).

I suspect one of the reasons That Pool is popular in porn shoots is privacy. It's entirely enclosed with frosted glass. That also means they can heat the air, so the models don't get goosebumps and so on.

And since it's part of a condo, now not occupied by anyone, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the rest of the place also gets featured in porn. Plus the current owner is keeping it precisely for photo shoots, so that makes it easy to book. And there's no resident to get in the way and cause trouble.

Given how heavy water is, I agree. But I've seen a drastically bigger example of that kind of engineering: the Venetian Casino in Vegas.

The ground floor, with really high ceilings, is the main casino and it's wide open and spacious. Above that, on the second floor, is a shopping mall, and the entire mall is built around a large number of interconnecting canals full of water. You can ride a gondola with an oarsman moving it around. There must be several hundred tons of water in the canals, and it must have been quite an engineering challenge to make that work without the building collapsing, especially since they couldn't load up the casino with supporting columns.

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Mmmmmm... frosting.
I recognize it, but mostly because Mr. J-List features it on his blog a couple times a year.

Posted by: Mikeski at March 11, 2016 06:51 PM (bj8Y8)

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I knew I had seen it before and I finally stumbled across *where*: ero-cosplay model Chouzuki Maryou/Mariposa apparently did a photoshoot there sometime last year. There's a photo on Sankaku Complex's photo site with a lot of likes, so it pops up at the top of the page quite a bit.

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Does it say something about me that the most disturbing thing in that photo is how the handrails/exit would lead you right into the window? Shouldn't they be at the end of the pool, leading to the chaise lounges?

March 09, 2016

Cheesecake -- Girls with Swords

My bright idea was to choose a series of themes corresponding to keywords on Gelbooru in order to select pictures for successive cheesecake posts. My first idea was "elf". The result was page after page of bondo, torture, and rape pictures. It's said that no matter what you're thinking of, someone has a fetish for it, but I didn't really think that the main fetish for elves was such dreadful violence. It's stuff like this that gives us all such a bad reputation.

The second idea was "multiple girls"; the third was "maid" and in each case I couldn't find anything I could reasonably post here.

6"Oh, is that what they are?"Sort of. Boob size seems to be derived from how well-armed and armored a ship is. That's why refits are usually depicted a bit curvier. The newer ships, at least carriers and battleships, tend to be bustier as a result, but I'm not sure if that's true about the other ship types.

February 23, 2016

Anyone who has regularly followed sites like Danbooru and Gelbooru will have noticed a radical shift in subject matter over the last couple of years. Used to be about half of it was Touhou Project, but these days that's pretty rare and the most common subject is Kancolle.

I think the reason is pretty obvious: the Touhou characters all look like they're 5 years old, but the Kancolle characters are grown up (and out!). So the tldr answer is "Boobs".

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There's a range in both games. Touhou has a couple of lolis and a few adult women, with the rest being teenagers, being drawn as older teenagers in ecchi art. Kancolle has destroyers and submarines generally as middle-schoolers, cruisers generally as high-schoolers, and the battleships and aircraft carriers generally as older teenage and adult mikos. (One of the carriers is younger and has breast envy.)